(n) a standard or typical example, Syn.epitome, paradigm, image, Example: he is the prototype of good breeding; he provided America with an image of the good father
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
n.; pl.Epitomes [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. &unr_; to cut into, cut short; 'epi` upon + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. épitome. See Tome. ] 1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ An ] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.
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